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RCMI Core Laboratory Technician, Damaris Gavillán (center), recently trained students (right: Francheska Delgado), postdocs and faculty members (left: Dr. Jacqueline Flores-Otero) on the proper use of the Core Facility Centrifuge and Ultra Centrifuge. Topics covered in this training included: accuracy and precision in measurements of mass, calibration of manual pipettes, rotor balancing and maintenance, what can go wrong upon improper use of a centrifuge, and how to prevent accidents, among other topics.

The Institute of Neurobiology is proud to partner with Nikon, Inc.

Two Institute graduate students, Kevin De Leon and Laura Vicente Rodríguez, participated in the Summer Program in Neuroscience, Ethics, and Survival (SPINES, June 20 - July 18, 2015) at the Marine

A collaboration between the Miller lab and investigators in Egypt and Canada was a Spotlight article in Trends in Parasitology.  See: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26254959 and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26086611

The work of Institute investigator Dr. Guillermo Yudowski was recently featured in the blog of the Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, MA): http://blog.mbl.edu/?p=2419

Institute of Neurobiology investigators were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program (PI: Dr. Mark W. Miller, Co-PI: Dr. Manuel Díaz-Ríos).  The grant, entitled Acquisition of a Shared Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope at the Institute of Neurobiology will provide the NeuroImaging Core with state-of-the-art instrumentation.
 

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO. The RCMI Program is pleased to announce that Joshua Rosenthal, Ph.D., from the Institute of Neurobiology at the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, teamed up with Gail Mandel, Ph.D., John Adelman, Ph.D., and Paul Brehm, Ph.D., from the Vollum Institute at the Oregon Health & Science University, to obtain one of ten NIH Transformative Research Awards.   Their High Risk-High Reward project will develop novel strategies to recode molecules to repair mutations in faulty genes.

Maria Fernanda Montiel-Gonzalez, a Ph.D. Student in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus published an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. See (http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/10/08/1306243110 ).

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Marla Rivera Oliver was selected to present a highlighted poster at the National IDeA Symposium of Biomedical Research Excellence (NISBRE) in Washington DC (June 16-18, 2014).  He poster, entitled "Caffeine Stimulates Locomotor Behavior in the Mammalian Spinal Cord" was presented in collaboration with her mentor, Dr. Manuel Díaz-Ríos.